Les Rosiers

Les Rosiers is a wine assembled from a selection of young vines in the Jasnières appellation.

• APPELLATION:
  - Jasnières. White wine, dry to medium dry (see info per vintage)
• GRAPE VARIETY:
  - Chenin 100%. Vines aged under 50 years.
• SOIL (TERROIR):
  - Clay with flint on tuffeau (limestone). 4 different soils in 2 parishes depending on the types of clay and the proportion of the complex clays / clay-flint.
• VITICULTURE:
  - Ground works : ploughing, earthing-up and hoeing. No weed killers.
  - Maximum yields 25 to 35 hl/ha. Manual harvest.
• VINIFICATION:
  - Natural fermentation in 1-3 year old barrels with a small proportion (1/4) of new oak. Maturing one year. The final balance is the work of nature: 6 gr./L of natural residual sugar in 2002.
• TASTING:
  - 2004: Represents ten year old vines from that once-fabled appellation, but you would never guess this to taste it. Peach, quince, and lily-of-the-valley seduce the nose, and a lovely creaminess and delicacy on the palate perfectly match this wine's character of a floral inhalation with rarefied pit fruit essences. Smooth, substancial and glossy, this lingers caresssingly and delicately yet with formidable concentration of fruit and flowers.
  93 /100 - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate #172
• SERVICE:
  - Wine for ageing.
  - Open 30 minutes before serving at 13-15°C.
  - Goes with: white fish, anglerfish, emperor fish.
    See also: maturity period and food matches